At the United Nations this week, Violet Affleck — daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck — used her global debut to declare that the COVID-19 pandemic is still “ongoing” and to demand that the world adopt permanent mask culture.
TPV reports: The 19-year-old Yale freshman, who wore a heavy N95 mask throughout her speech, said masking and air filtration should be treated as basic human rights and embedded into daily life indefinitely.
“We are told by leaders across the board that we are the future,” she said in her Sept. 23 remarks. “But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”
In other words: Violet’s solution to what she describes as a crisis without end is to have the entire human race live indefinitely behind filters and fabric. She compared her vision to smoking bans of the past, suggesting that society should become so accustomed to masks and air systems that children grow up never questioning them.
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| Jennifer Garner with her daughter Violet in Los Angeles |
This speech was not a one-off. Earlier this year, Violet published an essay in The Yale Global Health Review likening the pandemic response to climate change, and in July 2024 she testified before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors demanding “availability of masks, tests and treatment; air filtration in government facilities; and an opposition to mask bans.”
“I contracted a post-viral condition in 2019,” she said at the time. “I’m OK now, but I saw firsthand that medicine does not always have answers to the consequences of even minor viruses. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown that into sharper relief.”
Critics, however, saw her UN appearance as pure theater. The optics of a celebrity’s daughter, masked at the microphone and insisting the pandemic never ended, struck many as an attempt to punish the public with restrictions most people long ago moved past.
What was billed as advocacy for “clean air” came across instead as a sadistic demand for permanent pandemic — a vision of humanity forever behind masks, delivered by someone whose celebrity parents, more than her expertise, opened the door to the world stage.
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